Infant harness



, Oct. 9, 1951 v. ARRASMITHv INFANT HARNESS Filed Nov. 13, 1948 PatentedOct. 9, 1951 UNITED l STATES "PATENT OFFICE I 2,570,631A v Y lINFANTHARNESS Lois V. Arrasmith, Spokane, Wash. Appiicatien'November 13, 1348,seria1N0.59,953

This invention relates to a harness and it is one object of theinvention to provide a, harness or restraining device which may be putupon a small child and then secured about the seat of a chair andprevent the child from standing up or falling off of the chair.

Another object of the invention is to provide a harness including awaist encircling belt carrying a strap for passing about the seat of achair transversely thereof, the belt having normally free ends carryingmembers which are engaged by the free end portion of the strap in suchmanner that the belt will be held about the childs waist and the strapremovably secured about the chair bottom.

Another object of the invention is to provide a harness wherein the endsof its waist encircling belt carry fabric loops so arranged that thestraps carried by one end of the belt may be disposed in straddlingrelation to loops upon the other end portion of the belt and the freeend portion of the chair-engaging strap then passed through certain onesof the loops in such manner that the belt will be secured about thechilds waist and the strap prevented from slipping loose.

Another object of the invention is to provide a harness which is formedfrom fabric strips and will be of light weight and easy to wash when itbecomes soiled.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the improved harness in operativerelation to a chair indicated by dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the harness upon an enlarged scale.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view showing loops of the beltengaged with each other and the free end of the anchoring strap, thedotted lines indicating the manner in which the end of the strap ispassed through the loops.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the free end portion of theanchoring strap in securing engagement with loops of the belt.

This improved harness is .used for holding a baby or small child inseated position upon a chair and in Figure 1 the harness which isdesignated in general by the number l has been shown in operativeengagement with a chair 2 indicated `by dotted lines. l

The harness has shoulder straps 3 and 4 which are formed of fabric, orother suitable material, and have their ends secured to front and rearportions of a belt 5. The shoulder straps are of f:such length that whenthe harness is in use and Cil `belt will be in position to extend aboutthe childs waist and in order to prevent the shoulder straps Y fromslipping transversely out of place there have been provided front andrear cross straps 6 and 1 which extend across the chest and the back ofya child wearing the harness. An anchoringstrap 8 is secured at one endto the belt at one side of the harness and is of such length that it maybe extended downwardly at one side of the chair and then across theunder face of the chair seat transversely thereof and upwardly at theother side of the chair and towards the normally free ends of the belt.

The belt must be secured about the childs Waist and the anchoring strapsecured about the seat of the chair and in order to do so there havebeen provided looped straps 9 and I0 carried by one end portion of thebelt and companion looped straps H and l2 carried by the other end ofthe belt. The looped straps or strips 9 and l0 are beach secured at oneend to the end of the belt and these strips then folded back uponthemselves into overlying relation to the outer face of the belt andtheir ends sewed to the belt, the strips being suiciently loose to formloops which project outwardly from the belt. The looped straps or stripsIl and I2 are folded upon themselves and their ends secured at the otherend of the belt with the looped straps projecting from the end of thebelt longitudinally thereof and spread transversely so that these loopedstraps may be disposed in overlapping and straddling relation to thelooped straps 9 and I0, as shown in Figure 3. kAfter the loops Il and I2have been disposed in straddling relation to the loops 9 and I0 the freeend portion of the anchoring strap 8 is passed upwardly through theloops 9 and I0 in overlying relation to the loops Il and I2 and pulleduntil it fits with sufficient tightness about the seat of the chain, thefree end of the anchoring strap being folded outwardly and downwardlyback upon itself about the upper loop 9 and thrust downwardly throughthe loop I0 as shown in Figure 4. The portions of the anchoring strappassed upwardly through the loops and then downwardly will then be heldin close contacting engagement with each other and frictional gripbetween the folded portions of the anchoring strap and the loops willvery effectively prevent slippage which would loosen the anchoringstrap. A child wearing the harness will thus be held in seated positionupon the chair and prevented from standing up on the chair-seat or:falling from the chair. When the child is to be removed from the chairit is merely necessary to draw the free end portion of the anchoringstrap upwardly through the loops and then downwardly and the anchoringstrap will be released and also the ends of the belt freed from eachother. The child may then be lifted from the chair, the harness beingremoved from the child either before or after lifting the child from thechair.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:v

A harness vfor children comprising a waist encircling belt havinginitially free ends, upper and lower loops carried by one end portion ofsaid belt in overlying relation thereto and projecting outwardlytherefrom, loops carried by and extending longitudinally from the otherend of said belt and each disposed in straddlingrelation to a.

companion loop carried by the first mentioned end of the belt, and ananchoring strap lsecured at one end to the belt, said anchoring straphav'- ing its free end portion passed upwardly through portions of thefirst mentioned loops exposed through the second loops in outwardlydisposed relation to the second loops and then being folded back uponitself about the upper one of the rst mentioned loops and downwardlyunder the lower one of the first loops in crossed relation to the lowerone of the second mentioned loops.

LOIS V. ARRASMITH.

REFERENCES CITED UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Picard Jan. 21, 1947Number

